It isn’t a secret that shows and movies that take place in D.C. aren’t often shot in D.C.—the city is an expensive place to film, and unlike many of its counterparts, doesn’t have a fund to offer incentives to producers. (As we wrote yesterday, one local legislator wants that to change.) Now we can add TNT’s Leverage to the list of productions that filmed all its “D.C.” scenes outside of the city, often with interesting results.

For the show’s season finale, which was taped in July and aired in mid-September, producers converted a Portland subway station into a D.C. Metro station for scenes that were supposed to take place here. (In the episode, the show’s characters were trying to thwart a bio-terrorist attack on D.C.) Portland’s subway authority, TriMet, caught the transformation as it occurred, with set-builders working feverishly to make Portland’s Washington Park station—ha!—look more like one in D.C.

We didn’t see the show, but from the look of the pictures, no one who lives or has been to D.C. would be fooled. The stations surely don’t look like D.C.’s cavernous icons, and the trains, well, slapping a “D.C. Subway” sign on any railcar won’t make it one of ours. But to the producers’ credit, they did come up with a mock “D.C. subway” map that at least resembles Metro’s existing system map.

Well, sort of. All the lines and most of the stations are accounted for, though they’re laid out very differently—in the show, you’d be able to transfer from the Red Line to the Green Line at New Carrollton, while Crystal City would be on the Green Line and King Street would serve as the northern most terminus of the Red Line (right after West Hyattsville, natch). And Silver Spring? It’s now on the Yellow Line, next to White Flint in downtown D.C.! They also changed the system’s name from Metro to “District of Columbia Subway Transit System” and made up a new logo for it.

All told, Leverage producers may have taken some creative liberties with our Metro system, but hey, at least they didn’t make the usual mistake of filming in a city with skyscrapers and trying to pass it off as D.C. (We’re looking at you, Live Free or Die Hard.)